Tom Ochinero

Bio

Tom is SpaceX’s Senior Vice President of Commercial Business responsible for
all commercial launch and private human spaceflight sales worldwide. He is
personally responsible for over a billion dollars of annual revenue and manages a
multi-billion-dollar global business pipeline.

In this role, reporting directly to the President, he focuses on generating sales, and
deepening SpaceX relationships around the world.

Prior to assuming his current responsibility, Tom was founder and CEO of
Structural Mechanics Corporation in Los Angeles, was a research scientist at
NASA Langley Research Center, and a Sales Trader for Goldman Sachs.

Tom is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA), holds a Doctorate in Engineering Science and Mechanics
from Virginia Tech, and is credited with the design analysis of SpaceX’s payload
fairing used on Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.